Some Recommended Reference Books
General
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives
Call number: REF DS334.9 .C36 1989
Encyclopedia of India
REF DS405 .E556 2006
Library of Congress Country Profiles
Library of Congress Country Studies - Area Handbooks
The Middle East and South Asia (World Today Series)
Call number: REF DS44 .C55
Biography
Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary
Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
Culture
Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary
Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
Government, Law, Politics
Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives
Encyclopedia of Politics: The Left and The Right
Pakistan (The World's Hot Spots)
Call number: REF DS389 .P3424 2003
History
Encyclopedia of Asian History
REF DS31 .E53 1988
A Historical Atlas of South Asia
REF Atlas Case G2261.S1 H5 1992
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, and Oceania 1750-1993
REF HA155 .M552 1998 v.1
Kingdoms of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ruling Monarchs from Ancient Times to the Present
REF DS32 .G87 1986
Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present
Philosophy and Religion
Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Islam
Call number: REF DS37 .E51 1960a
Encyclopedia of Islam, Three
Call number: REF DS37 .E523
Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development
Social Issues
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Women and Gender
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures
Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
Women in Islam
Call number: REF BP173.4 .W69 2005
Browse the E-Reference Books for further online titles. Search the Library Catalog and the I-Share Catalog for additional reference books.
Journals
Indian Economic and Social History Review
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Studies in History
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Modern Asian Studies
(full text for 1967-2003 via JSTOR)
(full text for 1998 forward via online subscription)
(citations for 1994 forward via Political Science Complete)
Databases
Use databases to find newspaper or journal articles. Use ILLiad to interlibrary loan articles that are not in full text in a database or in print in the Library.
For U.S. and international newspaper articles:
For journal articles:
AnthroSource (anthropology)
EBSCOhost Databases: Historical Abstracts and Political Science Complete (history and politics)
JSTOR (multidisciplinary)
Project Muse (multidisciplinary)
SocIndex (sociology)
Google Scholar (for finding additional academic books and articles)
Academic Websites (for essays)
Bibliographies for the Study of Southern Asia
Asian American Net: South Asia
Sarai: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
Non-Academic Websites
Audiovisuals (for presentations):
Harappa: The Ancient Indus Valley and the British Raj in India and Pakistan
The British Museum: South Asia (search results)
Asia Society: The Collection in Context
Victoria and Albert Museum, London: South Asia Collection
Kamat's Potpourri: The History, Mystery, and the Diversity of India
Smithsonian Institute: South Asian and Himalayan Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: South and Southeast Asia
Newspapers:
South/Southeast Asia Library Service: Newspapers Online
Al Jazeera English: Central/South Asia
Government Websites:
Directory of Official Websites of the Indian Government
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting: Government of Pakistan
The Official Website of the Government of Sri Lanka
Government of Nepal: Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers
Maldives Government: Maldives Government Ministries and Departments
Organizations:
The Association for Asian Studies
Special Topics
Partition:
Partition of 1947 India-Pakistan (from South Asia Citizens Web; includes academic and nonacademic sources)
PBS Newshour: India and Pakistan: 1942-1949 Timeline
BBC British History In-Depth: The Hidden Story of Partition and Its Legacies
Manas: History and Politics, Partition of India Bibliography
Imperial War Museum's Through My Eyes: India's Partition
South Asian Women:
South Asian Women's Studies Bibliography (resources)
Journal of South Asia Women Studies (JSAWS)
SAWNET: The South Asian Women's NETwork (forum)
Narika: Changing the Way We Live, Violence-Free (forum)
Elections:
- RefWorks is a bibliographic citation manager which can be used to save and organize your references, create a bibliography in the citation style of your choice, and help generate in-text citations or footnotes with the accompanying bibliography.
- Lake Forest College Citation Guides for Online Sources: Chicago Citation Style
- Hacker Guide Companion Website
- College Statement on Plagiarism
- Search by article citation page (for finding out what access the library has to a given article)
- CUFTS (for finding out what databases index a given journal)